[Pharo-dev] GTInspector is slow for large strings

Hi, if you inspect the following in Pharo 4, it will take a long time to execute: 'http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/all?q=puppy' asUrl retrieveContents. but if you execute this before, the inspecting above expression is much faster: GTInspector setGTInspectorEnabledStatus: false.

Re: [Pharo-dev] GTInspector is slow for large strings

Hi, It takes such a long time because for String objects the default presentation shows the content of the String. In this case the string has 10 million characters which Rubric takes some time to display. Given you use case it could make sense to limit by default the size of content that is

Re: [Pharo-dev] GTInspector is slow for large strings

---BeginMessage--- I’ve tried this: [ 'http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/all?q=puppy' asUrl retrieveContents ] timeToRun 0:00:00:02.587 [ GTInspector setGTInspectorEnabledStatus: false ('http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/all?q=puppy' asUrl retrieveContents) inspect ]

Re: [Pharo-dev] GTInspector is slow for large strings

Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] GTInspector is slow for large strings I’ve tried this: [ 'http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/all?q=puppy' asUrl retrieveContents ] timeToRun 0:00:00:02.587 [ GTInspector setGTInspectorEnabledStatus: false ('http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/all?q=puppy